Naomi Duguid
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Naomi Duguid (born 1950 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian food writer, best known for her cookbooks co-written with her husband Jeffrey Alford.
Duguid went on to attend Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and proceeded through law school. After travelling around the world Naomi met Jeffrey Alford in Tibet in 1985 and the two were soon married.
She quit her job as a lawyer and went into writing cookbooks in 1995. She has jointly put out five books with her husband on world cooking. All five books have gone on to be major successes and have won Cookbook of the Year from the James Beard Foundation in 1996 and 2001 as well as Cuisine Canada Cookbook Award in 1999 and 2004.
Alford and Duguid have two sons, and live in Toronto, Canada.
[edit] Books
- Flatbreads and Flavors: A Culinary Atlas (ISBN 0-688-11411-3, 1995)
- Home Baking: Sweet and Savory Traditions from Around the World (ISBN 1-57965-174-7, 2003)
- Hot Sour Salty Sweet (ISBN 1-57965-114-3, 2000)
- Seductions of Rice (ISBN 1-57965-234-4, 1998)
- Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent (ISBN 1-57965-252-2, 2005)
